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- Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
- Lillian Smith
- What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Tis education forms the common mind;
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), Moral Essays, Epis, I, Line 149
- Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
- Alice Duer Miller
- A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
- John Lubbock
- Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
- Alice James
- Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
- Robert M. Hutchins
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